Reviews by brndnnll

Unfamiliar with this band aside from just recognizing the name. I ended up listening to this 3 times, it just kind of fit the vibe for the work day. Enjoyable enough for sure.

Early 2000s alt hip hop is not really my jam. This was a long concept rap opera album. It was good for sure, but not really my thing.

Well this is unfortunate, since it has rightly been excluded from the official list. I am not familiar with Sublime outside of their ubiquitous hits that everyone has heard. I have always loved the part in the 'What I Got' song where he says "I can play the guitar like a motherfuckin' riot" and then proceeds to play the most basic and boring guitar riff/solo anyone has ever heard. Hilarious stuff. I think that kind of encapsulates this band in a nutshell. This album was a very tough listen, and I will not ever listen to it again.

A fine funk/pop record from the 70s. It has a hit on it that was re-made nearly 25 years later and was also a hit so it's enduring. Not much more to this than that.

I am not overly familiar with Jason Molina, but he's clearly one of the best songwriters of his generation. This album was great, and happy to listen to most of his music.

This is an album that I was genuinely expecting to be on the initial list and was surprised it wasn't, especially given how overrepresented the seminal classic British musicians are on the list. A great album, though as always with post-Beatles McCartney albums, a little too much Paul. Nice Sunday morning listen.

I had never heard of Ike Reilly at all, and this vibe really hit this morning. Fun anthemic songs with great hooks. Sounds like it's own thing for sure. This was a great listen this morning.

A bit of a quirky psych folk band, which is not surprising given the band name and album title. This was enjoyable as it's own thing and also just because it's distinctly different from what is usually on this list. A decent listen.

Great inclusion. Truly a niche and under represented scene in this list. Mexican ska from the 90s? Yeah I can dig, something different for sure.

Had never heard of this band, and for good reason! This is maybe the most Britpop sounding album I have ever heard, which is not a compliment.

I had never checked out SDRE and had always just kind of assumed they were 90s indie rock. I did not realize that they are distinctively post hardcore and emo. This album was great, a lot of it kind of reminded my of Treepeople, particularly Scott Schmaljohn Treepeople songs. I bet if I would have listened to this in like 1999 or 2000 I would have loved it and gotten very in to SDRE. Great record.

I never got into Bright Eyes, his voice and affectation was always a bit too emo for me. However, this was a great record and I really enjoyed it. At the end of the day these are just really excellent songs.

This was a lot better and more interesting than I thought it would. Very eclectic for sure.

Very forgettable dime a dozen 1980s British New Wave Synth Pop -- Something that the original list is over stuffed with to a fault.

Certainly recognize the name but am not familiar with the music. This was a very strange and dated very 90s intersection of jazz and soft rock. Wild that there is enough people out in the world for whom something like this is for. Certainly not for me.

This was rough. The one bright note was that this was a normal album length at 46 minutes. I would not put it past a group this big during the height of the CD era to push the 70 minutes mark an album. Fortunately they did not. This album has hits for sure, but is not worth the time.

I had always assumed Billy Strings was the name of a member of Phish or like a character in a song or something. Had no idea he was an actual person.

Well this was incredibly tough to listen, and at 75 minutes it really drove that point home. Absolutely belongs no where near an essential list of music.

I listened to this whole thing thinking it was a great example of late 60s/early 70s Brazilian psych music. And then when it finished and I read about it, I learned this band in German. No matter. A great record, and a good inclusion from something a bit underrepresented on this list.

Protomartyr has always been cool enough as far as modern post-punk goes. Good live show for sure. This is easily the best album of theirs. Happy it's here for sure.

Incredible top tier flamenco album.